Gt - FL USA
Note: This is the english form of the article "¿Que dicen tus periódicos sobre la geoingeniería?
http://geoengineeringclimateissues.blogspot.com/2014/05/que-dicen-tus-periodicos-sobre-la.html
“Typically, surveys of public opinion find that less than 5 % of respondents claim any substantive knowledge about the issue, although a somewhat higher number are able to offer a broadly accurate definition of the term ‘climate engineering’ (Mercer et al. 2011).”
From: Like artificial trees? The effect of framing by natural analogy on public perceptions of geoengineeringAdam Corner & Nick Pidgeon (May 2014) [1]
Although
there is a very short and incomplete definition for ‘geoingeniería’ or
‘ingenieria climatica’ in Wikipedia http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoingenieria (written by me) the term ‘geoingenieria’ has no meaning in the dictionary from
the ‘Real Academia Española’ (RAE)
A search in (RAE) results in a message saying that the word is not in the dicctionary.
.
Given that
the concept itself has no official ‘word’ and much less a definition in the spanish language I would think that for spanish speaking societies the number of
people with ‘any substantive knowledge
about the issue’ would be far below 5%.
Searches on Google ngram viewer for the term ‘geoingenieria’ and the term
‘captura de carbono’ also yield zero results.
These terms
(‘geoingenieria’ and ‘captura de carbono’) and their concepts may appear in some
articles, studies or books. But searches on various Spanish speaking written
newspapers in the majority of cases yield zero returns; with very few
exceptions e.g. El País (Spain) [2], ABC
(Spain) [3], El Universal (Mexico) [4].
It is
notable that carbon capture and sequestration (captura y almacenamiento de
carbono) technologies are being developed in some Ibero-American countries e.g. Mexico, [5] Brazil [6] and in Spain [7] as well, but the term geoengineering
(geoingenieria) is being carefully avoided, no doubt for fear of negative
backlash, and aided by the lack of official language concepts.
But to be
fair, here in the United States, ‘news purveyors’ of high profile e.g. The
Drudge Report also seem to be involved in a concerted effort to not-to-inform the public.
Over the
past two years repeated searches on the Drudge Report web site with the term ‘geoengineering’
netted zero results. This continues to be the case as of today May 21, 2014
Searching
for the term ‘geo engineering’ yields 2 results:
STUDY:
Geo-engineering solutions for 'global warming' ineffective... ^
From the
February 25, 2014 19:20:47 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
STUDY:
Geo-engineering proposals for 'global warming' ineffective... ^
From the
February 25, 2014 18:20:28 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
Alas, following the links, a message indicating that the page does not exist or it is unavailable.
Searching
for ‘carbon capture’, ‘carbon sequestration, ‘beccs’, ‘biochar’or ‘afforestation’
also yields zero results.
A search
for ‘biofuel’ yielded 14 results dating from 2007 to 2014.
16:20 pm May 21, 2014 Update-
Searching for 'climate engineering' nets 1 result with an active link:
16:20 pm May 21, 2014 Update-
Searching for 'climate engineering' nets 1 result with an active link:
'Human
Engineering' Could Combat Climate Change... ^
From the
March 12, 2012 21:20:35 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
End of update.
Efforts
like these by the fossil fuel industry, or entities supportive of it and from its
detractors as well, to keep the public ‘un-informed’ reek of manipulation.
This should be unacceptable.
It is for
that reason that efforts to not only ‘open up’ the global-public’s
participation in the geoengineering debate, but to also intelligently inform
that debate should be welcomed, regardless of how averse ‘we’ may feel towards
the issue.
Thus, even though no single technology has been scientifically proven to be safe and feasible, climate engineering has moved from the realm of science fiction to concrete political, academic and economic considerations.“Climate engineering thus warrants attention from Pacific island and other states for two reasons. First, given the possible severity of climate impacts, a sober and serious consideration is needed regarding the potentials, limits and risks of climate engineering. Second – and perhaps more importantly – to be informed and able to make sound decisions should the Pacific island states be approached by governments, business people, activists, or others (including scientists in search of research platforms) with regard to the topic.”
Workshop Report - Perspectives on Climate Engineering from Pacific Small Island States [9]
So, let us
hope for the vigorous, civil and well informed ‘climate geoengineering’ debate!
And in all
languages!
Conscious of my limitations as a ‘lay person’ but hoping to contribute to the debate in a positive way, I have
written this post, prompted by a general invitation that appears in the
Washington Geoengineering Consortium web site [8] for articles and publications,
in spanish, on the subject of ‘geoingenieria’.
An
invitation that is certainly welcomed and accepted!
Below the references I have included translations to some articles and links to other sites, as
well as a few of my own perspectives from the blog.
Best
regards,
Oscar
Escobar
A
#Geoengineering #Climate Issues Blog – Geoingeniería (A biligual blog)
References
[1] Like artificial trees? The effect of
framing by natural analogy on public perceptions of geoengineering
[2] ‘geoingeniería’
search @ Diario el País (Spain)
http://www.prensaescrita.com/adiario.php?codigo=S&pagina=http://www.elpais.com
[3] ‘geoingeniería’ search @ ABC.es (Spain)
[4] ‘geoingeniería’
search @ El Universal (Mexico)
[5] Proteak – Captura
de Carbono – (Aforestation - Mexico)
[6] Petrobras Lula Oil Field CCS Project (CO2
enhanced oil recovery Brasil)
[7] Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (CIUDEN)
(“is the main public sponsor in Spain of capture, transport and geological
storage of CO2 technologies”)
[8] EL CONSORCIO DE
GEOINGENIERÍA DE WASHINGTON (SPANISH)
[9] Perspectives on Climate Engineering from
Pacific Small Island States
Beyerl, K.,
Maas, A. ( Eds. ) (2014): Perspectives on Climate Engineering from Pacific
Small Island States. - IASS Working Paper, April 2014, 10.2312/iass.2014.008.
Geoingeniería : Un
breve historial (Traducción libre de artículo en la revista Foreingn Policy -
Septiembre - Octubre 2013) http://geoengineeringclimateissues.blogspot.com/2013/09/geoingenieria-un-breve-historial.html
20 razones por las
que la geoingeniería podría ser una mala idea (Traducción libre) http://geoengineeringclimateissues.blogspot.com/2013/09/20-razones-por-las-que-la-geoingenieria.html
Cruz Roja/Media Luna
Roja, Centro sobre el Clima. Geoingeniería: encontrar una voz para los
trabajadores humanitarios (Traducción libre) http://geoengineeringclimateissues.blogspot.com/2013/08/cruz-rojamedia-luna-rojacentro-sobre-el.html
Profecías auto
realizadas de la Geoingeniería y otros argumentos caducos en contra de su
investigación (Opinion)
En detrimento de los
estudios de geoingeniería: Apocalipsis-mo vs. Paliativismo (Opinion) http://geoengineeringclimateissues.blogspot.com/2013/08/en-detrimento-de-los-estudios-de.html
Una alternativa más
segura que la Gestión de Radiación Solar ( Geoingeniería) para combatir el
Cambio Climático-Calentamiento Global http://geoengineeringclimateissues.blogspot.com/2013/03/una-alternativa-mas-segura-que-la.html
Academia: https://www.academia.edu/5747277/Una_alternativa_mas_segura_que_la_Gestion_de_Radiacion_Solar
GEOINGENIERIA DEL CLIMA
TEMAS SOBRE LA INGENIERIA CLIMATICA - MODIFICACION DEL CLIMA
(Weekly twitter fed newspaper)
MIT Technology Review (Español) (occasional geoengineering
articles, carbon capture, bioenergy, etc.)
Environment 360 (Español) (occasional geoengineering articles,
carbon capture, bioenergy, etc.)
RAM 3ª Etapa (Magazine for the meteorology aficionado)
(occasional articles)
http://www.tiempo.com/ram/search/?cx=002828392868715987369%3Aradjv0kcudy&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=geoingenieria&sa=Buscar&siteurl=www.tiempo.com%2Fram%2F&ref=geoengineeringclimateissues.blogspot.com%2F2013%2F03%2Fgeoengineering-climate-making-of-modern.html&ss=531j142965j3
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